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    Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006;1:327-30.

    Spatiotemporal source tuning filter bank for multiclass EEG based brain computer interfaces.

    Acharya S, Mollazadeh M, Murari K, Thakor N.

    Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. acharya@jhu.edu

    Non invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow people to communicate by modulating features of their electroencephalogram (EEG). Spatiotemporal filtering has a vital role in multi-class, EEG based BCI. In this study, we used a novel combination of principle component analysis, independent component analysis and dipole source localization to design a spatiotemporal multiple source tuning (SPAMSORT) filter bank, each channel of which was tuned to the activity of an underlying dipole source. Changes in the event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) were measured and used to train a linear support vector machine to classify between four classes of motor imagery tasks (left hand, right hand, foot and tongue) for one subject. ERSP values were significantly (p<0.01) different across tasks and better (p<0.01) than conventional spatial filtering methods (large Laplacian and common average reference). Classification resulted in an average accuracy of 82.5%. This approach could lead to promising BCI applications such as control of a prosthesis with multiple degrees of freedom.

    PMID: 17946815 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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